Dr Who?

Another personal observation of the game, I think we were more worried about not losing the game than winning. I think this steams from last season as a club and how damaged we are. This is not all the players as quite a few were not here, but as a club, last season is still hanging in the air. There are still aspects in our play. We are still laboured, and shackled. I think players need the freedom to express themselves and see what comes of it. We are far too ridged and look scared. I think losing to that lot down the road would have damaged us further, and that was definitely in the minds of players, but if we had gone at them from the off and won the game the confidence that would have given them would be huge. Don’t get me wrong during the second half I think Pomp#y had the same problem, and lets not lose attitude, so we ended up with 2 teams and stand off for the last 20 minutes. So we go into the Hull game and again I have not seen anything in that performance that says we are going to win. We look bang average at the moment.

I have said this in many posts and been shouted down. We have to many ‘fancy’ ‘creative’ players and we are missing the key fundamentals of any team, the core. A good strong keeper, that we have not had for years. A reliable strong centre back, and great communication between the 2 mentioned. I do not think either have confidence in each other back there, and this lack of communication nearly led to the skates taking the lead on Sunday, but hitting the bar instead. Forster always had great communication with his back 4. You do not hear a pip out of Gavin. We also do not have a strong ball winner and have never replaced Romeu, and it is that sort of player we miss, a case, Hurlock kind of player, nothing fancy, but someone who is going to win you the ball, or stop the opposition attack so you can regroup. We get cut through the middle often. Then another position we have failed to fill is a great striker that does not mean great in the number of them we have. We need a player who can pop the ball in the net, we have players we think should be able to, but they are never going to get you the number of goal we as a club are looking for, with our expectations. When the majority of the fan base are getting all excited about our fancy wingers and creative players we were signing at the end of the window, for me this was not the positions we desperately needed, but the club just pleasing the fans with flashy signings all nice and glittery. Something also did not sit right with me, that they would leave promotion rivals to come to Saints or more to the point why their clubs let them leave so easily? We need to address the core of the team, and we did not. We are not a ‘team’ and not playing like one. We do not have a proper team leader that I have confidence in. Someone who has the balls to call someone out, or to pick us up and drag us to 3 points and be respected. I don’t see it, and this worries me, and this is why I think we will miss out on promotion and at this rate outside of the playoffs. We are just not that great all over!

They made a mistake by moving the away fans to the other end. The atmosphere was brilliant in our promotion season, had not known one like it at SMS, and the club thought by making the northam all home fans it would get even better. Wrong, it is the banter that whips up the atmosphere, and now that has been lost and it is flat. They need to make this right, but with the fan zone it cannot go back to how it was and it is all standing. So the Kingsland or Itchen North is where the away fans should be.

Rangers have only sold 4,000 tickets for their game at Ibrox this coming weekend cup game against Hibs

I have no idea what is happening here, is he always in full kit? Does he ‘dance’ all the way through, or does he take requests? What is happening everyone, I’m so confused!

I do not think there will be any outstanding teams in the championship this season. I think the quality is going to be much lower than the 3 last season. I expect Boro and Stoke to drop away, and Ipswich will probably be the best team at the end of the season. We will be anywhere from playoffs to 10th. I think that blue lot will be around mid table as well as they slowly progressively seem to get better every season since league 2.

That I cannot answer, but I am sure we say the same about that clown 🤡 with the big shoes and blue and dirty white wig. I think it is added for impact!

It’s so cringe! 😬

Said the same at the time. Subs should not be made when you get to a certain time on the clock, but if you need to shake things up to try and get a foothold in the game. We were getting on top for sure and so he made changes. 🤷🏽

I don’t rate the team much!

We look shaky at the back and we are still not gelled as a team. This is terrible.

Phew thank god for that. I will stop worrying now! 😂

On the plus side I went into the last league game v the skates thinking we would batter them, and we drew 2-2 thanks to that last minute mis-kick. But I did go into the 2 home games 2003/04 season against them thinking we would win and we did. I just cannot shake off the feeling we are going to draw or maybe even lose this game. I’m just not confident we are very good ATM! 😞 I better be bloody wrong!

Yes we have to win against this lot! Also I hate to break it this on the eve of a derby game which is only 12 hours away, but we are not that good atm. This game does just seem to be coming at the wrong time. They are really happy with their start and they will not fear us! nearly lost to a poor Wrexham side drew with a team that lost at home Blackburn today lost at home to 10 men Probably our best performance was at out of sorts Ipswich. All one can hope is that it clicks tomorrow!

Hate this game. It is only good if you win. Love the build up, love the pure hate that comes with it. Love the simmered down banter now I’m older. Still we must win, and I fear it will end all level. But really, not a flipping scoobie which way it will go!

Think that should be enough!

He’s a gonna, and this will damage hope of getting another job even in the Championship. Sheffield United should be grovelling to Wilder to come back.

He did have a premier league team though, unlike Lego 2 seasons on, with a squad weaker than when we got relegated.

Football club owners, who would have them? The majority are crazy and clueless.

He did really well at Reading. I know many Reading fans that were sad to see him go, and would take him back in a heart beat. He had no money and hardly any players in his squad, and they only just missed out on the playoffs. Apart from that he has been rubbish everywhere else, and he really needed to hit the ground running. The fans did not want to see CW go, and they loved the idiot, but this has been a huge disaster from the off! They get a decent manager in and they will be fine and turn it around. But they need to do it now to get back in the playoff shake up with the other 10-12 teams!

I used to love Soccer Boss on my Spectrum. So easy to play. You picked your best players on a rating 1-9 and fitness 1-100. Very simple. I will be getting FM26 when it comes out for sure. Might need to get a decent laptop. What other platforms will it be on?

But we deserve some entertainment in or around SMS for once surely?

We will NOT go up. For reasons I have given on many occasions. We do not have a strong enough core. To many fancy footed players that will get kicked into row Z in this league.

We really should be looking to make the area around the ground more attractive for pre match. I know we have the fan zone, but we should have the whole area of a complex of restaurants and bars, with other entertainment. The whole match day experience is more to do with the family, and a family match day experience of a whole. Get the women’s ground built down there or get them kicking off before the men’s game. I do think we are missing a trick, but then again the club cannot even stick a 4G mast up so you can get online during the build up, during the game and half time. Carlisle United have great 4G coverage at their ground. But then again the whole matchday and off the field stuff is spot on… just on the pitch they are terrible!

Jeez, good luck Mr Smith! 😧